07 August 2006
AOL's facelift seems impressive
AOL has been busy lately offering more services in order to stay alive in today's Internet market.
Today's latest announcement is a free online anti-virus program. They are making this available to all internet users. This anti-virus is from Kaspersky Labs and updates hourly to protect users from viruses, spyware, trojans. It also features real-time scanning. Internet Explorer users will get yet another toolbar with this to add password manager and pop-up blocker features.
Yes this toolbar is a nice feature but it is one more thing to reduce the size of the viewing area of your webpages. I'm spending most of my time trying to get as much viewing area and as little toolbar area.
For those interested in this it can be downloaded here.
Also announced in a press release earlier this month, starting from September 5 GB of online space will be free for anyone. Also anyone interested in more space can purchase a 50 GB account, although it doesn't give the price of that. In addition they are offering free uploads and downloads from the storage space, a drag and drop interface between your computer and the online storage site, the ability to share the files and folders with others, and the ability to use AOL Pictures to print any photos on the drive. Anyone interested will have to have an AIM or AOL screenname.
AOL is also planning to release its e-mail, messaging, social networking applications and security features. The most impressive announcement is the intention of allowing people to have a local phone number with unlimited incoming calls free of charge. I admit I am not a fan of AOL but I will be looking into that feature.
Today's latest announcement is a free online anti-virus program. They are making this available to all internet users. This anti-virus is from Kaspersky Labs and updates hourly to protect users from viruses, spyware, trojans. It also features real-time scanning. Internet Explorer users will get yet another toolbar with this to add password manager and pop-up blocker features.
Yes this toolbar is a nice feature but it is one more thing to reduce the size of the viewing area of your webpages. I'm spending most of my time trying to get as much viewing area and as little toolbar area.
For those interested in this it can be downloaded here.
Also announced in a press release earlier this month, starting from September 5 GB of online space will be free for anyone. Also anyone interested in more space can purchase a 50 GB account, although it doesn't give the price of that. In addition they are offering free uploads and downloads from the storage space, a drag and drop interface between your computer and the online storage site, the ability to share the files and folders with others, and the ability to use AOL Pictures to print any photos on the drive. Anyone interested will have to have an AIM or AOL screenname.
AOL is also planning to release its e-mail, messaging, social networking applications and security features. The most impressive announcement is the intention of allowing people to have a local phone number with unlimited incoming calls free of charge. I admit I am not a fan of AOL but I will be looking into that feature.
